Prehistoric gross-out
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Candy that looks like you-know-what
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College students reach into the past for present confection
December 24, 1998
Web posted at: 12:43 p.m. EST (1743 GMT)
(CNN) -- A group of college students are hoping to create a big stink this year and make some money while they're at it.
Riding the crest of the ongoing dinosaur craze, they've developed a new candy called Dinodrops. Basically, it's simulated prehistoric dung.
"We don't want to be outright gross, but there are definitely lots of hints," says Jill Richardson, a graduate student at the University of British Columbia.
Dinodrops is the brainchild of Richardson and some friends. And it's designed to appeal directly to the pre-teen crowd.
"It's an irregular shaped product with a foot imprint," Richardson explains. "Well, we all know that fecal matter in the animal kingdom often gets stepped on."
The candy's inventors decided to candy-coat sour cherries. To dry the cherries, they combine two existing technologies called
vacuum-microwaving. It requires a specially designed oven that microwaves in a vacuum, preserving more color and flavor in the cherries than a conventional microwave.
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Dinodrops are candy-coated sour cherries that appear to have been stepped on
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Once the sour cherries are dried, they're coated with a
fruit-flavored candy coating then stamped with the foot imprint -- a delicate operation -- and then sent into the freezer to harden.
Dinodrops developers are optimistic, but time will tell if this candy will make it to market or go the way of its namesake.
Dinodrops has one other feature. Blow on the box when it's empty, and it's supposed to sound like a dinosaur passing gas.
Next week on "Tomorrow/Today:" The oldest pilot flies off into the horizon.
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